The BJP has nominated Sushil Kumar Modi for the seat (File)
New Delhi:
LJP president Chirag Paswan mentioned on Saturday that it was the BJP’s prerogative to announce a candidate for the Bihar Rajya Sabha election.
The seat had fallen vacant following the dying of Chirag Paswan’s father and Lok Janshakti Get together founder, Ram Vilas Paswan. The BJP has nominated former Bihar deputy chief minister, Sushil Kumar Modi, for the seat.
Sushil Modi is more likely to win uncontested except the opposition Grand Alliance fields a candidate to problem him. In that occasion, the polling will happen on December 14.
A union minister, Ram Vilas Paswan had received elected from the seat final 12 months after it fell vacant following his cupboard colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad’s election to the Lok Sabha from Patna Sahib
“The seat belonged to the BJP and it’s for the celebration to determine which candidate from which celebration to area within the by-election,” the 37-year-old chief advised reporters.
At an occasion, Chirag Paswan requested the celebration rank and file to gear up for the subsequent meeting polls which may happen “any time”.
Responding to questions, Mr Paswan maintained that he noticed “recent elections happening any time in Bihar, given the best way the brand new authorities is functioning”.
In a written message to celebration employees, Mr Paswan defended his resolution to go solo within the meeting polls, saying, “We had to choose between accepting the NDA’s supply of solely 15 seats regardless of being a celebration with six members within the Lok Sabha and one within the Rajya Sabha, or have interaction in a pleasant battle to protect our honour”.
The LJP chief, beneath whose stewardship the celebration fought greater than half of the seats within the 243-strong meeting however gained just one, tried to cheer up his supporters and requested them to concentrate on the intense facet.
“We may win solely two seats within the earlier meeting elections though we had contested as a part of the NDA. This time, we have been alone, with out a military of star campaigners to canvass in our favour. However we secured 28 lakh votes and now our celebration is being talked about throughout the state,” Mr Paswan mentioned.
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